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brought forth after the loss of the Haryaswas. Like their pre-
decessors, they were dissuaded by Narada from begetting off-
spring, and " scattered themselves through the regions " never
to return.
tfACHL Wife of Indra. See IndrawL
SADHYAS. A Ga?ia or class of inferior deities ; the personified
rites and prayers of the Vedas who dwell with the
gods or in the intermediate region
between heaven and earth.
Their number is twelve according to one authority, and seven-
teen according to another, and the Purawas make them sons
of Dharma and Sadhya, daughter of Daksha.
SAGABA. A king of Ayodhya, of the Solar race, and son
of King Bahu, who was driven out of his dominions by the
Haihayas. Bahu took refuge in the forest with his wives.
Sagara's mother was then pregnant, and a rival wife, being
jealous, gave her a drug to prevent her delivery. This poison
confined the child in the womb for seven years, and in the
interim Bahu died. The pregnant wife wished to ascend his
pyre, but the sage Aurva forbad her, predicting that she would
give birth to a valiant universal monarch. When the child was
born, Aurva gave him the name of Sagara (sa,
'
with,' and gara,
*
poison '). The child grew up, and having heard his father's
history, he vowed that he would exterminate the Haihayas and
the other barbarians, and recover his ancestral kingdom. He
obtained from Aurva the Agneyastra or fire weapon, and, armed
with this, he put nearly the whole of the Haihayas to death
and regained his throne. He would also u have destroyed the
$akas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Paradas, and Pahlavas," but they
applied to Vasish/ha, Sagara's family priest, and he induced
Sagara to spare them, but "he made the Yavanas shave their
heads entirely ; the $akas he compelled to shave (the upper)
half of their heads ; the Paradas wore their hair long ; and the
Pahlavas let their beards grow in obedience to his commands."
Sagara married two wives, Su-mati, the daughter of Kasyapa, and
KesinI, the daughter of Eaja Yidarbha, but having no children,
he besought the sage Aurva for this boon. Aurva promised
that one wife should have one son ; the other, sixty thousand.
Kesinl chose the one, and her son
whom the royal line was continued
was Asamanjas, through
Su-mati had sixty thou*
sand sons. , Asamanjas was a wild immoral youth, and his